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Christine Ferri


Posted by admin on July 21st, 2011

Mrs. Ferri, a 42-year-old homemaker and mother of 3, from New Jersey, with a history of recurrent glioblastoma . Christine’s brain tumor was first diagnosed back in 2000, when she had a seizure when she was six months pregnant. Her first surgery to debulk it was done soon after she had delivered her baby… the biopsy confirmed low-grade glioma. She declined conventional chemo and radiation, and was able to enjoy a relatively uneventful few years before the malignancy accelerated and became more aggressive, and the seizures began again. She underwent another craniotomy and subtotal tumor resection in March of 2009. Christine related the harrowing experience of being told the risks, with or without surgery: (chance of significant and near total paralysis of left side, cerebrospinal fluid leakage, infection, bleeding, stroke, coma & death.) Christine arrived at Camelot two weeks postop, and began treatment with intravenous DMSO/B17 formula. She completed two 20-day rounds and recently received her post treatment PET scan. The final impression paragraph of the scan report says it all: “There is no evidence of recurrent tumor in the postoperative cavity in the high right parietal region.” Christine reports that her symptoms have resolved and her life has returned to her normal routine. She remarked she was very relieved and grateful to be healed and able to see her three small sons grow up.